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[Antonio García Jiménez]

In his papers on the Voynich, Captain Currier called glyph c our little friend. I firmly believe that this glyph is the symbol of the moon, although it is not easy to prove it. I will try to give some hints.

  In one of the most spectacular manuscripts of the 15th century, contemporary with the VM, Les très riches heures du duc de Berry, we see the symbol of the moon drawn in the tympanum calendar of some of the months of the year. For example:

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The moon is drawn as a crescent in all cases, but what it indicates is the new moon, the day of the month in which the new moon falls each year of the metonic cycle, represented each year by a letter.

The curious thing about this image is that the moons are grouped into one, two and three symbols. What we see in that calendar band is c, cc, ccc distribuited in any order. It is the same distribution that we see in the VM script!

They may be just coincidences, but it is possible that this little friend of Captain Currier can lead us to good port.